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Novel approaches to the determination of the origins of petroleum hydrocarbons in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin system.
In June 1996 MESA commissioned the Centre for Petroleum and Environmental Organic Geochemistry at Curtin University with $30 000 to investigate the applications to the Cooper-Eromanga Basin system of new molecular geochemical concepts recently...-
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Organic petrology of samples from a group of four wells in the Simpson Desert and Pedirka Basins.
Sixty five samples from 4 wells were examined for organic matter type and abundance, and maturation levels. The Late Permian Purni and Early Jurassic Poolowanna Formations contain the best source rocks in the Poolowanna Trough. These sequences are...-
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Crude oil characterisation and correlation study, twenty-seven oils, South Australia-Queensland Cooper-Eromanga Basin.
27 oil samples obtained on drillstem testing of various Mesozoic and Permian formations in wells spread across the Delhi-Santos petroleum exploration licence areas were subjected to organic geochemical analysis to determine their geochemical...-
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Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic palynostratigraphical units.
The basic palynostratigraphical subdivision of the Cooper / Galilee / Eromanga and the Surat / Bowen Basin regions was developed in the 1960s. Since that time, the basic unit nomenclature (J1, Tr2a, etc.) applied then has been retained so as to give...-
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ExpNotes STRZELECKI: Explanatory Notes STRZELECKI
The STRZELECKI 1:250 000 map area lies adjacent to the NSW border in the centre of the Strzelecki Desert, and covers some of the main hydrocarbon producing areas in SA around Moomba. Most of these oil and gas fields are located in the northern half of...-
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